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Superdiversity and trans-ethnography

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Visiting Scholar Dr Suzanne Hall (LSE)

February 4th, 2016, 14:0015:30
Seminar Room 1, Leeds Humanities Research Institute.

As part of its Sadler Seminar Series 2016, the Leeds Voices project is delighted to welcome Dr Suzanne Hall (LSE) to the Leeds Humanities Research Institute.

There will be time for questions following the Seminar. All are welcome.

Suzanne is Assistant Professor in Sociology and Research Fellow, LSE Cities, at the London School of Economics and Political Science.  She is an urban ethnographer, currently working on the micro-economies and spaces of urban migration. Suzanne was recently awarded an ESRC Future Research Leaders grant (2015-2017) for a comparative project on ‘Super-diverse Streets: Economies and Spaces of Migration in UK Cities’, which builds on a previous London-based project, ‘Ordinary Streets’ http://lsecities.net/objects/research-projects/ordinary-streets. Recent work on Rye Lane markets in London is showcased in this film: https://lsecities.net/media/objects/events/ordinary-streets-film-launch

Her research monograph, City, Street and Citizen: The measure of the ordinary, was published in 2012.